The Sun. — London, England, 1826-05-29 00:00:00

MELODISTS' CLUB. On Thursday night this Society, which has rapidly at taiuedan eminence for musical talent mit enjoyed by any other club, held its sixth meeting at the Freemasons Totem. Amongst the vocalists and composers pre sent, to say nothin g o f amateurs, ,were Braham, Bland, Master Barker, Broadhurst, - T. Cooke, Clif ton, J. Roche, Watson, Welsh, Master Watson, &c. who, in.the course of the evening, exerted their powers in the execution of soine of the finest melodies and glees. On the removal of the cloth, Non Nohis was, as may be imagined, given in a very superior style. The objed of the Cl u b, is th e p r omotion of melody and ballad composition, and the present members, a majority of whom tire either of the musical or the li terary world, are the founders of the Club. on Thurs day its interest was increased by a resolution to form a ibrary of music, and a number of composers pre .ented the Society with copies of their works ; amongst these donations was one of all the glees published by the , Harmo n ie Institution, from Mr. Welsh : besides the works of Messrs. Braham, Cooke, Dr. Kitchiner, 'Watson, &c. The rules for the admission of new members up to the number limited, were finally adopt ed anti ordered to be printed. Several members were proposed, amongst whom were Sir John Stevenson, and Thomas Moore, Esq., but the ballot for 'their admission is to take place on a future evening.— After an announcement that all communications on the business of the Club should be made to the com mittee at the Freemasons' -tavern, apologies were of fared for several of the honorary members who were absent ; particularly for C. M. Von Weber, Messrs. Sinclair and Duruset, on account of ill-health ; and Messrs. Phillips, Horn, Shields, and Signor De Begnis, On account of other unforeseen occurrences. It would be difficult to enumerate all .the perform ances of the evening: on the toast of." Prosperity to the Melodiste' Club being drank, the glee of " Wel come Sons of Harmony" opened the entertainment of she company; a duet by Braham and Welsh followed— Master Barker then sang the song of " Mother, Mother," from Alladin, most delightfully. By the way, this youth has been gradually stealing upon the public, and apparently without effort or patronage, until he has deservedly become a favourite. His song of " A little, little Kiss," in a more ad vanced period of the evening, was greatly applauded; a compliment not lout its value in such a company as the Melodists. Mr. Braham sane as he always sings ; he is the " head and front ". of his profession, oncr we hope will long enjoy his pm-eminence. Mr. Broadhurst sang very 'sweetly ; T . . Cooke taxed us with a hearty laugh by one o f hi s . moc k Italian songs and his medley ; Mr. Walsh's Mad Torn was a mu siedi treat. Bland gave a ditty with good effect; and Roche sang, with much taste, " A bumper of sparkling wine, accompanied by Mr. Clifton, the com poser of the song. Mr. Welsh sang a new ballad, which he presented to the Club : it was greatly in the style of Dibdin. Glees and duets were occasionally interspersed, and the evening was an uninterrupted scene of enjoyment. A great evil at present is, that a musician like Graham or Bishop may be set down to compose to words that would disgrace a school-boy, and that we have, therefore, delightful airs attached to the most wretched trash. The cause is ob 'duos, The Poet is never paid ; there is little or no encouragement for his exertion. The Melo dists' Club invites poets to send in songs with private marks instead of signatures, those approved are sub nutted to the composers, and others returned without the parties being known. The Club may publish, if it so determine, an d i n th a t case t h e profits are fitirly apportioned, the writer being entitled to one-fifth. We believe that this club will, in a short time, do much towards removing the evils complained of. HORRIBLE MURDER AT WINTON. PURTHIM PARTICULARS. (From the Manchester Gazette.) appParti, too, that Alexander M'Kean was in Hulme, a town. ship immediately adjoining Manchester, about seven O'clock on chi following morning, and received 61. from a man there, whom lot had bean in the Custom of employing as a hawker of cotton, silk,' and other goods. 'Where or how they changed their clothes is Out known. Both of them must have been covered with blood, Alexander, in particular, because of the mortal struggles he en vountered with the poor girl that he murdered. From various circumstances it i; evident that the villains contemplated the murder of every inmate of Mr. Blears' house; fur it appeared that they haul supplied themselves with knives previously to their Tutting out from home, which they did on the evening of the day in question. A young gentleman, a surgeon, named Hancock, lodged in their house in Byron-place, anti it appears from the evidence given by him before the coroner, an the inquest held on Weil motley afternoon, that they dined at home at four o'clock, and that afterwards they invited Mr. Hancock to go with them into Safford. When they arrived at the corner of the New Bailey street, and opposite the Brown Bull public-house, they requested Mr. Banco& to step in and dun a Mrs. Sharpies, a person who lived there, for half a crown, which they alleged she owed to them, and whilst Mr. Hancock did so, they went into a public. house on the opposite side of the street, kept by Mr. 'Boardman. Mr. Hancock, not having succeeded in obtaining the half crown, joined them at Mr. Boardman's, and drank a glass of porter with them. All three then came ant of the house. Mr.- Hancock went towards home, and the two MtKeans towards Pendleton. 'lt appears, also, front the evidence of Mrs. Sarah Stewait, who lasepa a hardware shop in Smithy Door, and has known Michael Mc'Kean fie several years, that on Saturday last, . slot had a sale of hardware, and that Michael assisted in putting down the prices at which the goods were 'sold. On this occasion, a quantity of knives, of a desceiption similer to the kaite which was found sticking in Mrs Mears' face, were finind spread out in the shop, and Michael hid full opportunity of'' Nsiriessing himself of some of them without her knowledge. Pions Wi g e fhith of the gashes on the left cheek of Elizabeth Bate, it is OP/41)I St* lie must have been inflicted with a knife similar to Ota fine with which Mrs. Blears was stabbed ; and it is no *Mall esierohorittiup of the feet, that these tutpriticipled men bad prede termined to eommit murder, that a stone mantle-piece in the bed room was, after their departure, discovered by Mr. Hancock to he +scratched, as if by the operation of shinpening a knife. The' knife, tar, which was extracted. from Mrs. Blears' cheek, was scratched at the edge, as if it had been aharpened on a rough stone. On the morning of the murder, two large yellow var nished atieks were found meter the sofa on which Mr. Beam slept ; and in the bed-room in which Elizabeth. Bate was Mur dered, WO found a black stock, similar to one which was worn by Alexander on the night of die murder, The sticks were Men having belonged to Mi c h ae l an d Alexander. WM renders the murder more shocking, is the fact that the unfortunate young woman was in an advanced state of pregnancy ; thia eirennuitance Mr. Garthaide did nut discover until the fol wfulg m orn i n g, inasmuch as finding that she was quite diNid, be directed his whole attention to Mrs. Wears, otherwise he would, we understand, have made an attempt to rescue the unbent in fant. Banns of Marriage had been publiAt'd between the unlbr-- tunate woman and the father of her child, and they were to have been married.in it fortnight. Mre. Blears, we are h a p py to state, 4, in consequence of the skill and attention, bestow e d upon her by Mr. Garthside, in a hair way of recovery, but her sufferings, i t ul na na turally be supposed, are extremely great. Pursuit is making in every direction atier the murdere rs , large handbills, containing their complete description, are posted iu every town and village in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and even aiewalais, and a reward of Mk (as we before observed) is offered for their apprehension. This shocking event Las filled the whole neighbourhood with horror awl consternation, and curses, not loud but deep, are vented upon the merciless murderers. At four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, an'lngnest was held on view of the body, at the hones in which the murder Was 01117 mitted, and after the patient examination ofa number of Witnelleley who deposed to the facts we have mentioned, the Jury4Mme diately brought in a verdict of WILFUL MURDER against Alexander M'Kean or Keand, and Michael A P Kam or Keatvi, the latter, in their opinion, having aided and abetted the former in the commission of the bloody deed. We omitted to mention that the house of the M'Keans was kept for them by their mother and sister, and that police officers have been stationed in it since their departure. Ou Wednesday morning, bailiffs wanted to come into the house to distrait' for rent. As we are desirous of giving our readers every particulars re specting this horrid murder, we subjoin the particulars of THE INQUEST, leaving out such facts as have been mentioned in the above narra tive, in: order to avoid, as much as possible, unnecessary repetition. At four o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, an Inquest 'was held before J. Milne, Esq. Coroner, and a very respectable Jury, on view of the body of Elizabeth Bate, aged SO, in the Jolly Car ters public-house, .kept by Mr. Joseph Blears. The following are the names of the householders who were sworn of the Jury :- James Bradburn, of Barton-upon-Irwelli Foreman ; John Mear, ditto; Richard Bretan, ditto; John Wilkinson, ditto; Thomas Scholes, of Pendlebury ; Cowperthwaite, ditto; William Edge, ditto; James Dyson, ditto; John Walwork, sen. of Clifton ; John Walwork, jun. ditto; Henry Young, ditto ; Roberts Hogg, ditto ; Thomas Farnworth, of Worsley ; William Smith, ditto; George Bolton, ditto; Robert Leigh, ditto. The Jury viewed the body of the deceased, which presented a piteous spectacle, and created strong sensations of horror and in dignation. The following witnesses were respectively called and examined. J. Blears, the landlord of the public-house in question, deposed to the facts we have before described, up to the time of his falling asleep on the wilt. The quantity of liquor which he drank with the two men never before took such an effect upon him. He was perfectly sober when he first came home. About oue o'clock, or between twelve and one, he was awakened by an outcry of mur der ; he rose from the sofa and saw his wife bloody, and found A. APKean and his companion gone. Ile wet off for Warrington in company with Mr. T. 'Milner, in pursuit of the murderers, and on his return home, and not until then, was he fully aware that his servant Betty had been murdered. The deceased was preg nant by a man in the neighbourhood, a joiner, and to whom she should have been married, and he understood that banns had been published. - LA large yellow stick was here produced.] This stick belonged to Alexander, he had seen it in his hand on the night of the murder.---(This stick had been found under the sofa by Mary Andrews.) M. Andrews, the wife of R. Andrews, shoemaker, examined- 1 live at the house neatest to that of my aunt (Mrs. Blears). On Monday night last, about 12 o'clock—l think the clock had not struck—l was alarmed by a - shriek. from my aunt. She cried " murder !" and said to my master (her husband) -" Wilt see me murdered, and have - a lance stuck in my heed ? we have a house full of thieves murdering every body in it." I and my husband immediately get up, and the first. thing I saw when I opened the window was my aunt at the door—(it was a fine moonlight night) with a knife sticking in her &Cc. She then stated the fact of the many fruitless trials that were made by several individuals to ex tract the knife ; the fetching the surgeon ; the scene of blood which presented itself on going up stairs in her aunt's house. Betty, she said, lay on her back on the clubroom floor, with her arm over her face, about the distance of a yard from the door ; her head was towards the doer, and she wasawimming in blood. W. Higgin, a fine lad about thirteen years of age, examined. The Coroner asked him if lie went to any Sunday School, and if he had learnt his catechism; to which questions he replied in the affirmative. I have lived with Mr. and Mrs. Blears, said he, since the death of my father, which took place two years ago. He was a gardener.'t On the night in question, I saw two men in the bar ; one of them I had seen in. th e h ouse b e f ore; th i s was Alexander. Mr. Blears sold him a canary bird last Whitsuntide but one. I went to bed about half-past nine, leaving the two men and my master in the bar. I went into the double-bedded 'mom, and into the farthest bed, which is without curtains. In the course of the night I was awakened by a noise in the room. I saw the bigger man (Alexander), that bought the canary bird froth my master, and Betty together, at the foot of my bed. I sal's , the man put his left arm round her neck, and bending her head back wards, do something with his right hand. She said, "be quiet." • He then flung her on the floor, and did some thing inure, and she cried out " Murder." They strag gled. She got upon her knees, and laying hold of Ms legs, said" mark thee, man." He- flung her down a second - time on her back, and did something more at her, but I did not see what it was ; but she cried out no more. I saw Betty very bloody about the - breast. He then came to me. I jumped up immediately; he put his hand on my mouth and presiied me down, and blood came on my face and shirt. The candle was burning in the window. Whilst the man had hie hand on my mouth Betty got on her feet, and was staggering out of the room. lie then left me and ran to her, and caught her at the door. - They struggled very much, and I escaped in the mean while through the left-hand Side door, Betty being in the middle, and the man on the other side.. I then jumped over the bannisters of the Stairs. The man made a grab at me, but missed me, and he left marks of bloody fingers on the shoulder part of my shirt..` The min folloWed me down staire—through the lobby—the kitchen—the yard, and round the house. 1 escaped under a gate, and then I turned round and saw both of the men. I ran niwarilii Andrews' house, and then into a field, where I hid my. self in a ditch, where I remained until I saw my mistress running down the line. The deposition of Mrs. Blear* having been previously reduced to writing by Mr. Foulkes, the attorney for the township, the Jury, accompanied by the Coroner, went into the room in which Mrs. Blears lay, she being unfit to leave her bed, and the deposi tion was read over to her, and she put her mark to it, being un able, from lice weak state, to write her name. The substauee of this deposition being given in the narrative, it is unnecessary here to repeat it. T. Partington, of Winton, weaver, examined.—l was in this house o►► Monday night. I came in about half.past eight o'clock, and went away a little before ten. I saw the two Scotchmen there; they sat in the bar. O►►e of them I had seen before. •I think they are Sentchmeu groin their accent. It was the tallest (Alexander) that I had seen before iu the house. Joseph Blears sat in the bar with Om. On one occasion he was called out, and during his absence, I saw the men pour the contents of their glasses into his (Blears') glass, and afterwards put water into their own glasses. They then looked towards the kitehen, and whispered to each other. was not in the bar more than three or four minutes, and 1 merely went there to get a pipe. J. Blears, J. Jones; R. Wilson, and othe►s, were in the tap-room on this evening, along with me, and when I went home I left them there. J. Jones 'and R. Wilson corroborated the statement of the last witness, with respect to the men pouring the contents of their glummer into Blears' glass. They deposed also to the fact of Blears' being almoit chnaked on drinking (as before stated), and calling to his. wife for water. Those witnesses likewise swore to the fact of Mr. Blears talking about the value of his bowie, and what property he had in it, and described the dresses which the Al‘Kcansi wore. In conclusion, they stated that the M'Keans were sober,' while on the other hand Bleats was quite drunk. W. Breton, the couetable of Barton, produced a black stock, which he found about 12 o'clock on the night in question, in the bed-room iu which K Bate was murdered. It was stained with fresh blood. He also described the bloody appearance of the rooms, and the position in which be found the hotly of the de ceased. He produced the knife which bad been extracted from Mrs. Blears' face, and the Jury examined it with intense interest. It had been placed in his bands by Dr. Garthaide, with a desire that it should he carefully preserved. He produced also a silk handkerchief, which had been given to him by Mr. E. Foulke*. Mr. E. Foulkes stated that he received it from S. WilliaMson, _ _ _ a servant of Mr. R. Hancock, whose grounds lie contiguous to Mr. Blears' house. S. W►lliamso►► stated, that about I I o'clock on Tuesday morn -I,lg he found the handkerchief in one of Mr. Hancock's fields, near the back of Mr. Blears' house, and that he gave it to Mr. Foulke►; He observed footsteps on the ground in a dire►tion rrona Mr. Blears house, and leading :towards Wonky. There . . Wail no road that way, and, be felt persuaded that the parties who caused th e f oot mar k s moat have made their way through the .. . kedge. Mr. W. Hancock, surgeon who lodged in M'Kean's house, in Byron -place, deposed to the feetB we have befi►re stated. The handkerchief found by Mr. Hancock's servant, he said, was his, but M. M'Kean had it on Friday last. Witness did not lend it to him, and he could not say how Michael got it, but he (Michael) often slept in his (witness's) room, and he might have taken it thence. He did not - charge.kim with taking it, because they were on such terms of intimacy. Michael was not so tall as Alexander. lie had large black whiskers,' that he suffered to grow all under his thin. Alexander and Michael did not come " Our readers may recollect, that about two years ago we stated the fact of a gardetutr iittdclenly dropping down dead aa• be was mowing a grass plot oppo s it e t h e heeee of Jr. Trafford, near Barton. Thia Wan , we understand, was iliggin. the father of William home on Monday night, nor had ever since returned. They took no pack with them when they went out. J. Thompson, a wearer, at Barton, stated that he knew M'Kean, and bad traded with him. lie (witness) saw him about six o'clock on Monday evening, at Barton Bridge ; he (Alexander) turned up the canal aide, and went in the direction to Winton. Mr. J. W. Garthside, surgeon, deposed to the fact of his being called in, on the night in question, and detailed . the circum stances re have before described. Mrs. Stewart also stated the fact of Michael having taken down the prices of hardware at the sale at her husband's shop,.on Saturday last. Size produced several knives which she bad for sale, and they were of a description precisely similar to the one which had been shown to the Jury. Here closed the evidence.—. The Coroner Obseried to the Jury, that it was not necessary that they should have full and positive proof that the 11‘Keans actually committed the murder : it was sufficient if the evidence which had been adduced satisfied their mimic as to the propriety of committing the men for trial. The Jury immediately, and unanimously, brought in a verdict as we have before stated, and the Groner, according to the statute, issued his warrant for their apprehension. The proceedings last ed f r om four o'clock until nearly eight, and excited a very strong interest.--J.en were last night, J. No rr c: tidings i ,Esq., of Davy H u h n° , an d severa l o th er gentlemen, the proceedings. Up tg:had been received of the murderer*, peto present no : during nor had any. trace of them been discovered.—lt is supposed that they must either have taken shipping some where, or that they are remaining in a place of concealment. A LOVER STABBED. We are extremely sorry to have to record o most painful event, which occurred at the village of I'udsey, near this town, on Tues day e v e ning last, between ten and eleven o'clock. Mr. J. Black burn, of that place, a respectable cloth Manufacturer, about 28 years ,of age, bed been in Leeds market that day, and walked home late in the afternoon. Shortly after his return he proceeded to the house of Mr. I. Carlisle, nearly opposite the New Church at Pudsey, to whose daughter, a young lady possessing great per sonal attractions, and very highly accomplished, Mr. Blackburn had for some time been paying his addresses. The family had re tired to rest when he reached the house; but, being anxious to communicate with Miss Carlisle, he got upon the ledge of one of the lower windows under that of her apartment, and succeeded iu rousing and inducing her to speak to him for a moment or two.— The young lady, however, became so alarmed lest her parents should be disturbed at that unseasonable hour, and particularly as her father always seemed rather indisposed to sanction Mr. Black burn's attentions, that she entreated the latter instantly to leave the window and depart ; telling him, that if be were discovered her father would kill him. As usually happens on such occasions, be delayed a little without obeying the injunction, and Miss Carlisle became so agitated in the mean time, that she wept aloud and startled her sister, %lam slept in the same room with her. The hitter, not receiving a satisfactory explanatinn of the noise which awakened her, flew to her hither's chamber, and called out that the house was attacked by robbers. The old man instantly seized a sword which was at hand, and rushing towards the lower window, against which the moon threw distinct shado w o f M r . Bl ac kb urn ' s person , as h e continued speak ing to Miss Carlisle at the upper casement, darted the weapon through one of the panes of glass, and into the abdomen of, the unfortunate gentleman. The wound was inflicted on the right side, between the navel and die groin, and of a depth, which, from the first, endangered Mr. Blackburn's life. fie was able, how ever, to walk to his brother's house immediately after, though a distance of. at least 500 yards, and though bleeding profusely the whole of the way. When he got to the house he called for admission, exclaiming, " Let me in, I am a murdered man," and believing at the moment that he had been shot at instead of stabbed. His trowsers, stockings, and shoes, were then found soaked with blood, and he himself almost completely exhausted. ' Mr. Weiblinger, a surgeon, of Pudsey, was imme diately sent . for, and administered all the relief_ which his situa- . tion would admit of, and soon after a messenger was dispatched to Leeds fur Mr. Garlick, the surgeon, who reached Mr. B. about five o'clock yesterday morning, and with Mr. 'Weil). ~ _ _ ... linger, dressed • the . wound. Meanwhile the constables of the village hearing what. LW occurred, sent au express to the Rev. J. A. Rhodes, of Horsforth Hall, for instructions how to act, and this Magistrate instantly proceeded to the spot, when he found Mr. Carlisle in custody, at the Golden Lion Inn. The particulars ,of the case were then investi gated, and the depositions of Miss Carlisle, her sister and' brother, taken, as to the circumstances which led to the misfortune, and the old man himself was heard in explanation of his conduct. Mr. Carlisle afterwards went, .acmmpanied by an officer, to see Mr. Blackburn, and expressed the deepest regret for what had taken ;. indeed, he seemed, during the whole of yesterday, sunk in the most sorrowful depression, at the consequences of his rash proceeding. Late last night he remained in custody at the Golden Lion Inn, and at that time the inflammation arising from Mr. B.'s wound was rapidly increasing, and threatening a fatal termination to the unfortunate sufferer. The whole Village of Pudaey has been thrown into the greatest agitation and distress by this untoward event,which is the snore lamented from the amiable character of both the young persons, whose happiness has been thus marred, perhaps, for ever. Mr. Blackburn is upwards of six fret in height, and in person and appearance one of the finest men men in this part of Yorkshire.' Nisi Carlisle, about 18 mouths back, kept, in partrership with Miss Laird, a boarding school ht this town, anti has always been highly respectetj, Her elder sister is married to Mr. Blackburn's brother, who resides in Hsunburgh, and it was during an accidental meeting while she was on a visit there souse time agn,that the Intimacy commenced, which has now been so deplorably interrupted. —Leeds Intelliyencen (From the Leeds Mercury.) On Friday an inquest was held upon the body of Mr. Black burn, by C. JEWISON, Esq., Coroner for the liberty of the honour of Pontefract, at house of Mrs. M. Richardson, the Golden Lion Inn, at Pudsey, at ten o'clock in the morning. Miss R. Celiac, having been sworn, said,' " The deceased J. Blackburn came to my father's house, on Tuesday night last, about a quarter past II o'clock. I had been in bed. He threw up some earth against the window ; after he had thrown several times, I got up, opened the window, and spoke to him, and wished him to go away immediately. Pe was then standing upon the ledge of the parlour window, and had placed his hands upon the bottom of the chamber-window, and I then put down the sash, anti left him in that position. In two or three seconds after, I saw him jump down, and never saw him again. I did not hear him cry out. I bean! a noise in the room below, which was a parlour we did not make use of. The noise I heard. was the breaking of a window. I did not • know at the time who it was that did it, but was in formed in the morning that it was my father. I saw my father return into his room, he had no light with him, but there was a candle in his lodging-room, which enabled me to see him. I had not a distinct view of the countenance of the deceased, as be was below me, and it was partly covered by his hat. Ido not think that there was sufficient light to have enabled me to have distin guished his features, but I knew his voice. Mr. Blackburn had two or three times before thrown earth at my window about the same time in the evening, and I twice got up ; upon one of those occasions I had some conversation with him, on the other I merely desired him to go away. Mr. Blackburn never visited me in the day time at my father's house. I wished him to come in the day time, and, speak to my father, but this he did not do. There. had been no quarrel or dispute between my father and the deceased. My father told me that he disapproved of the visits of the de ceased, and I had not given any encouragement to his addresses since my father spoke to me on the subject : I forbad him to visit me again, and I never admitted him into the house, nor have I kept his company in any other manner than I. have now stated, except speaking to him once or twice at my father's door. My father's lodging.room is on the other side of the house. I not give any alarm ; my sister Sophia got up and went out of the room as soon as the deceased came to the window. Ido not be lieve she knew who it was. I first became acquainted with Mr. Blackburn at Hamburgb." Mr. D. Carlisle, the brother of the last witness, said, " About half-past eleven 'o'clock on Tuesday night last, my sister Sophia came into my mow, and said that there was somebody breaking into the house ; I put my trowsers on, and found soy father (who had also been culled by my sister) a few steps before me ; he al ways keeps a sword in his room, and had it then in his hand; I had n o "alma, and was not much afraid; we went into the par lour, and I saw a man standing at the window ; my father put the sword through one of the top panes, but not, as I believe, with much force ; my father never spoke to the man ; we both f t i b o o n u l g t h h t e t w ha h t id l o i zas standing on the ground at Som e di stance hut I Could not judge of the distance, as it was very durk, and it was not until he had leaped down that.l dis covered that he had been standing on the ledge of the window; he jumped down inurtediately after my father put the sword through the p ane . My father had no idea th a t h e h a d h ur t the man. We then went into the kitchen ; my father said he had put the sword over his head to frighten him ; but when I told my father the position in which the man was standing, ho said that he wets afraid that he had hurt him. I had no idea whatever who the man was and I believe that my father did not know. I never heard that the deceased paid his addresses td my slows-, bat I have heard of his having been at the window before. I did not learn this from my sister Sophia, but from overhearing a conversation between my fathar and mother ; my father, when he mentioned it, did not seem very angry, but only said he wished he would keep away. The moon had not then risen. I went down stair* under an impression that the person was breaking into the house ; and from what my father said at the time, I believe that he had the same impression upon his mind; we found the parlmir window a little open ; lilid not know whether it was left so when the family went to bed ; we made no attempt to pursue the supposed robber; we wiped the sword with a white handkerchief to ascertain if thei e ivas any blood upon it; we found it rather stained, but we thought it was with the rust and grease; we had no further conversation about the robber; my father was somewhat agitated, but I was not at all so ; the de eeased and my father had never had any quarrel." Misi S. Carlile, win. seemed about 'l6 years of age, said, " I heard a noise at my sister's chamber-wind ow , on Tus:day night,. about 11 o'clock : it seemed to be oecasitmed by something .thrown at the window; I was awoke by the noise, but I did not speak to my sister about it ; I did not know that J. Blackburn threw it. She did not get up whilst I was in the room; I thought it was thrown by some person that was going to break into the house ; I went to my father's room, and told hint that morns peraon'wes breaking into the house, and he immediately got up ; I Went to tell my brother, and then retired into my own room ; I found my sister sitting in a chair undressed ; I heard the noise of the breaking of the window, but I did not see or hear my father afterwarcts. I (lid not tell my father that Black burn was throwing up at the window. I remember dirt being thrown at the window once before, and my sister told me that it was Blackburn who threw it ; lam not certain whether my sister had got out of bed before I went to alarm my father oryot ; I did not hear my sister speak to Blackburn. Mrs. Carlisle was then called.—The Coroner informed her that on account of the relationship in which she stood to Mr. Car lisle, she would not be required to give any evidence on the pre sent occasion; and he desired her to inform her husband, that if he wished to say any thing to the jury, they would hear him, hot that he was under no necessity to give any account of the transac tion. Mr. J. Weilllinger said, "lam a surgeon at Pudsey. I was called on Tuesday night, about eleven" o'cloCk, to visit the deceased. I went immediately, and found him lying upon the bed. He told the that he was shot, .and that it was Mr. Carlisle who had shot him. 116 was rather 'under the influence of liquo r, but not ine briated, and gave very coherent answers to the questions that I asked him. I found a great quantity of blood in his small clothes ; there was a wound in the abdomen, b inches below the navel, a little to the right ; there was a portion of the omentum protruded through the wound, and which I was obliged to remove. I told the deceased that the wound had more the appearance of having been inflicted by a sharp-cuttieg instrument than a ball ; the deceased said he could not say whether the noise 'he heard was the discharge of a pistol or the breaking of a window. I told him that I consi dered him to hi in the greatest danger, and that in all probability his life would be loot, and advised him .to send fur Mr. "Jenkins, the minister, as all I could do, or medical aid could do, would be too little. I attended him through the night, and he remained pettedly sensible. I saw hint six or seven times on" Wednesday; inflammation had come on, and I took three pounds of blood from him ; 1 saw hint as late as 12 o'clock on Nlrednesdiy, when I took My leave of him, leaving Mr. Jenkins with him, and telling him that he would be with his Maker in a few hours. The deceased said he was sensible he should soon be called into Another world, and he hoped that he had made his peace with God. I saw the deceased again on Thursday morning, hut he was then convulsed, and could not speak ; this was at seven o'clock ; I saw him. again a little before nine o'clock, and remained with him until he died, which was exactly at nine, o'clock.' Mr. Hey Was sent for by the desire of Mr. Carlisle, kit as there was some relationship between the families, he sent Mr. Garlick in stead of coming himself. I opeped the body. (Witnessed de scribed the appearance, which it will not be necessary to enter into.) The depth of the wound was three inches; and the intes tines had been wounded ; it had a sloping direction upwards. The wound was about three-fourths of an inch in width ; the whole of the intestinal canal was in a state of inflammation; the deceased suffered the most excruciating pain, and died of the ef fects of inflammation produced by the wound." ' Witness was clearly of opinion that the Wound had been inflicted by some Amp instrument, and that it was the cause of death. Mr. Carlisle was called, and informed by the Coroner, that he was not bound to give any account of the transaction, or to answer any questions; and he retired without saying any thing. Mr. Hutchinson was called to prove the examination of the deceased, which had been taken by the Rev. J. A, Rhodes, and was to the following effect :—That the deceased went to Mr. Carlisle's house between eleven and twelve &clod: on Tuesday night, to visit his daughter, as he had done many times bef►re ; he got up to the window to speak to her ; she burst into tears; and her mother asked her why she eried, .but he did not hear any answer; Mr. Carlisle stabbed hint immediately, but the deceased said he did not see, him or hear him speak; he hardly knew he was wounded until he got a few yards from Mr. Carlisle's house, and he thought he should never be able to get to his brother's house. In a subsequent part of his examination, he said that he never had said that he knew that it was Mr. T. Carlisle who had stabbed him, as he had neithei: seen him nor heard him speak; had not lately had any quarrel with Mr. Car lisle, nor• had Mr. Carlisle at any time threatened to do him an injury; witness about a year since had a quarrel with Mr. Car lisle ; it was about Sophia, who told her father that he was pay ing attentions to her sister Rebecca ; Mr. Carlisle spoke to him out of the window; he seemed vexed, but did not threaten him. The Coroner then read over the evidence, and the Jury were left to deliberate on the case ; and in about half an hour they re. turned a verdict of " Manslaughter." Mr. Carlisle will, of course, be committed to York Castle for trial. . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEVONTOKT, *MAY 25,—Arrived kis Majesty's ship Romney, Captain N. Lockyer, C.B. after a passage of 7 weeks, from Sierra Leone. When the Romney left the coast sicknet4 prevail. ed among the troops, and they had suffered considerably. The ships on the station were, however, pretty healthy ; Lieutenant Stephens and three Midshipmen of the Athol, who had been left in prizes when the Athol sailed for India, came home passengers in the Romney, and a few invalid seamen from his Majesty's ship Leven, Captain W. F, Owen. This ship, from the nature of the service on which she is employed, has suffered greatly from sickness since she left England —no less than forty-seven officers have died. Same day sailed his Majesty's ship Blonde, Lord Byron, for Portsmouth. MAY 26.—Wind variable, with heavy showers of rain.—Ar rived his Majesty's ship Bittern, from Liverpool, with volunteer seamen for the ships fitting at this port. M AY 27.—Wind S.B. dark cloudy weather—Arrived his Ma jesty's sloop Royalist (tender to the Britannia), from Portsmouth. Ships in Ilainone—Brittannia, Windsor Castle, Aurora, Forte, Java, Success, Trineulo, and Vigilant. Between the Island and Main—Bittern. In the Sound—Lively, Dryad, and Romney. The Aurora, Captain Maxwell, is ready for sea, and will go out of harbour when the wind will permit. CHATHAM, MAY 27.—Preparations are making for the erec tion of a new naval hospital and Royal marine infirmary on Mel ville Parade. The Chairman of the Victualling Board is here, marking out the ground, with, the contractor who has undertaken the work. When the hospital is finished, the Argonaut hospital ship establishment will be discontinued. SMERILNItys, M AY 27.—The Herald yacht, Captain Leeke, last from Portsmouth, arrived here this day. She is to he refitted and completed forthwith for the purpose of proceeding to the Baltic, to relieve the Gloucester, and wait fur the return of the Duke of Devonshire. l'onTsmouxts, Ma it 27.—0 n Wednesday, the transport, Baltic Merchant, Lieut. Lester, Agent, returned from Sierra Leone, Acre, Cape Coast, and Ascension ; left the last-mentioned —The several stations on the Coast of been id a s evieist frontt her e Sierrat o w ere t ile ta st e i r l e o l f ies A l i tZy il. than usual. It had been determined to A pi fr ac i e ca cql adnigirDanixti6Cotivwe.fort:tittit)hdeblrattatler up the esthta)e)gtmetesidlt coatufluitroriTb°re veiled, the English and Dutch Weeks having commenced war ( a )n l e llt o ll f ib: O r f uiße man rs u l m 'ad ittel en deavour to restore tranquillity. The Edward transport, which LhatoinelattoelyAlknestn, to be employed in the cultivation and im provement of that Island, was about to leav e t h e mast, for Eng land, with the stores, &c. from llanarnabo and Dix Cove. Com tfill4ll°terendlietra,lllewn'ereinctiun'izlhilgaittlene'Biwgliitbih othfeßEBkenit: a l l l 34 etl i3 w jaf ing r:, a f n o d r the suppression of Slave trading. The Athol, 28, Capt. J. A. 'titoiliaryto, t r b en ro e t w igh tl t i l e ie , a in tie te m ri p o t r of pass i ng Pri fii : a tg , Murray, had left the station for the East Indies. The Brazen, 1 28, Captain Willies, was lying in the Bight of Benin, in 1 daily expectation of hearing from Major Laing,, who some toftri:thtlet7ACtralnesfttticol7 shores. Aceonet a had . reached Cape Coast, of the death of Cant matpanion of that inirepio_and hardy , ,' Pearce, IL N. and Dr. Morrison, th e traveller,Capt.- Clapperton, B. N., Who Lie kitutelf reached Seudon, 160 miles in the inte- nor, nearly in latitude 8 North sad was then deaceediel • North face of the Kong Mountain, on his way to Timbues The surveying ships Leven (Captain Owen), and Bea were proceeding on the Survey of the Western Coast of A The Leven had recently completed an examination of the I, Los, six in number, about 70 miles to the Southward of tI Leone. These ships had tracked the whole coast from the • of Good Hope to the Gambia, but had found few rah places, not before known ; indeed a harbour is hardly found on that coast. St. Paul's Deeloando is a capacious safe harbour, and is the site of a Portuguese settleineut; were found a Portuguese frigate, and 'lB slave youth, all ing in the most open manner, under the protection of a ' Castle, a fort of 64 guns, and several smaller batteries. Th teation is about 10 South. The Leven and flameouts were at iu going in, as it is a custom of the Port, that all v► n!. anchor outside the bar, until their force and business are w known. On several head-lands, obelisks of different dm discovered, on some of which inscriptions bad been cut, ea they could not be deciphered, and whether they were erecte Vasquez de Gams, or before his period, as land-marks, t' not be determined. The Despatch, Captain Pawns Cape Coast ; the Engineer officers on board of her had ill completed their surveys, and after visiting Acre would refs! England. On Wednesday the American ship • Samuel Thorne" Virginia, with tobacco, bound to Havre, having levelled et muda, for repairs, arrived at Cowes. She left that island ea 20th April. Rear-Admiral Willoughby Lake sailed on ti :f ult. for Halifax, in the Jupiter, with the Orestes, Iliau Dotterel, and Clinker. The:Niemen had gone to Jennie/1i the crews of the Royal Oak and Dromedary. The lif e " i ' Captain Houston Stewart, was waiting to take the lfi,lss Nova Scotia (Dr. Inglis) back to Halifax. Ilia Lordship sr his visitation to the Island, to consecrate the Churchill, Rattlesnake, 28, Captain Leith, had arrived with the Col . s . e! , *loners of Inquiry, from Port Royal, and for the purpose oflie,' hove down for repairs. The convicts transported liosu f (about 700) were actively employed in improving the public w er —the Breakwater, Commissioners' house, andortificatons,. expe rienced on the island. tle of a five months drought, which hail a most serious effect on getation. Potatoes, of a bail sort, were selling at tenshiW , bushel. A severe storm of thunder and lightning hail place, by which a Miss Tucker was killed. Lit'u t '4 l ,; , „l R.N., Mr. Squires, Master Attendant, and th e Rev. - (appointed Chaplain of Sheerness dock-yard), cone ergo Letters from Callao, dated January 2 3 , 46, Sir 31. Maxwell, may be expected to arrive in rob e , July. The Cambridge, 80, was at Valparaiso; 134 " b, E 6,1 quimbo.; Ranger, at Callao; Mersey, at Paseo' sailed for San Blas Slat December. I T on, AO' Last evening, the Blonde, - 45, Captain Lord 1 Y k ol from Plymouth. The brigs' Leveret and Royalist, ten":", rro Guardian-ships at Plymouth. have sailed for that port ; Lieutenant Brooking; and the Starling, Lieuteuant Stuart,rrov cruises. The Espeigle, 18, Captain Yates; will oil t t 4 o ''°,,, b i, for the West Indies, taking Me. Beard,Consul:General ll' sailed this afte° The Borodino transport, Lieut. Cooley, fee h with detachments of the 24th and 52i1 Regiments,, 0 0 1 The Powerful, of 80 guns, will be launched at (lel; , a „ e " the 22d of June, or the first springs in July. ro Tarr Alfred, 74's, are cutting down to the heavy frigate class 52 long 32-pounders. The Dublin, 74, will be co r' state, that the same manner. When the Ilarham is ready, she wil . he g, " lor slimed for the flag of the Hon. Vice-Admiral Flemo West India station. Hanipsiii re Telegraph. , e b e il A 64 6 41 ' cuss or,l on Saturday morning from the building yard of ) oult I Captain Clavell, and the officers and men of the tr Ordinary, have subscribed one day's pay foe the tlis gun-ship, for the Colombian Government, essc d nufacturers. s et! The Officers of the Royal Charlotte ya cht have het die oo gr to the Willi a m and Mary, and those of the latter t•° /v ol. yacht, which is to be attached to th e Lord Lieutenant P' Captain Lecke, of the Herald, of Post Captain ; and Captain Clifford has been app °, fe l t o 0 in that yacht.—Lieutenant .11PKerily has been appo ily Martial. kets its tn~ The Lady Mary Pelham, and Lady Louisa PAC ,o v oioo r . from Malta, Gibraltar, and Cadiz, have arrived ; I I tie misters have come home in them :--Col. Chaptotor ig h rt. Otto, Capt. Manners, Mr. Ravenhill, Mess fhoe• et, well, and • Jewell, Don de Niece, Miss Cliapinan, piaster Cres has been promoted:oll,os Forster. ~............. EAST INDIA SHIPPING• Gi__ _ The Honourable Company's ship tb e lluritiughanuil lith his . Sd e 7 Pm i tn e pee lef th t iea t i b d t4 2 e ri fr ßoc t o hi m n c fa ; Ci ni T at ii ir i . n y ir: , T i gr is , arrived and on s the H o ] 1 T7etiehdi:sJe a W o n n u i n g t r h h y e t , o4tnlit;i tCAteip;i6il7::iii: u tarings information that the outwanl-bound Older Pers:.‘"! v u rn. l in os el t Gr o ,u n hilai n iifio o rd bii: Icaslapitali,ninitTl:nbgleie/s3,ay,frtollilei cizi,o,drrsall:i;:nl:l,l:jc passengers l, at Portsmouth on the 27t1i, consisting of I‘l;vensij t:na.frvernT..:hiaysetoiddr,e.,ra:cesspip,C.r.t.ipsarecup tiivailvaelritlttofeditite4rys:Chtotildofh:i;,:ifittthieb.Atii:dpr:frct:eityv,, , l ii ie w s ji tr ,„ yinh 0 4S ofu t jt b han , ; :v ut it ry b . it pa T r hi ty hoafp;alteidratis ;13/Ltiriounteonfajle:::oo, r.!a onmo t f u e e tti lic 6 :h a n o e ff :e 2 w. r 4rt l e :rdered to join thelselairrm:thCayiri:imaititYint oteTfrhrithetosier;lleirttlit;;o:4: a_athnho_d S ut t. th . these ll :o e rfef_ l i e lA n rio a pey, , ricl, m iee. i iii h ii e wd 2th ti illa 9 r ffi cli c , iid on dei n i : i t c .c h be il l Y fi,l t ar h t e i r r purser reach e d too It ~, .. tio t 111 Directors. yell, I ° pawl 7 "l b A y eas Po ta r ta ' iu o 11 ki, from Bombay. The Recovery , Chapman, Or I 0' ay, for Madras, laving gets, have sailed. . , t(z=bh:;fryerpt n P hAl o i.Lsy,o a 3fmfm •r i ri trojonaauluji t ne o l snu u taffr) T ,r y. y the Loral fdvanaultilfll,4l4.etfrfi:Jo2o4RlGan:Opeil.tedrilidAfo_f_LoHrrrriii:vecedi:YirDorditro:;'let:6o.l9.....til:::sseofsrarfirioii:::_!lciltytar.;;;;;'.:„tirre,,h: t:rom- Riga and Miranda ; Butts, ---• f,„ rmi t t ,lit rtie ; f il anl4l ,, i64 oil P faS al hri e pi rt ialF :o lfaxPe 2G g—l old Wf : irn ood dthlSTe , : K L: id i d, Aln f rr r d o ii i : n ed; Va 'di r : o : ; tFlßle6;;; ,o ll3:ll:i':l: " Sil'ltf‘ll::: Gibraltar'itlpieilatthcholf transport, Pearl, Wil so n, .;the vl 1, of M", 1 ,111 01 TN, MAY 27. ---Arrived , Lin.- +goy ' - Packet, from Lishou......s.„iled 14t h i tto t, Duly 4‘ ig,goliteri , —, and Lady Louisa Packet, .---; f r°i° ;, 110 tj ra l !eari; the latter tailed from Corfu the 12th of A1° 1 4 4 .... 0 E. r 'lie riSfaoyithanAdmca'di thl4";tll,No.ip. po,j,,t, .. the r l ' i ",io l ; DEAL, MAY 28 .-- Passed Wate ri ~„ ---.-mied " through WO for jsul ..ei New South Max A i r '''Y' "nice; and Black River Packet, Ba kers f O lies , iv or a e co : t . : s p , at iv r i ao a n y ; 2 an B 4 . l_L A or r t r l iy N ed Velli t n i g le ton a , eO / 1 1 :;: van i t ri; W ' fo ; 1 and Charles Brook, Bell, for St. Vincents.--Viio' fro` Matanzas; and the Hardy, Shirley, from the " . ido l ' - ,i i ro ,:r, Sir 'l'. Brisbane, 1 '' BeiArri, Arri ved off Weymouth, the Princess Charlotte ° st . .1 0 ;b' Cuba. ; off Dover, the Cranford, llyatt, lo w fro l twilerf, 0 „ flopef to' Wales, having on board the late 00',„114 o f "----enTa.......i.E011111.10_,, , t Gen. • £'7.--Arrived tsluieitel%pfaarlly well, ~ ,f , e i lid f i V" Clyde. Jamaica, Ayressar (n ai m i :th no s u id g e la ) s ; ., z i , l i e te d v fi i t d h eo, of in V' t r ) il l iy .l „ ....eh 4 Lt vz nrooL, I%IA r —W.—Arrived the Murray' 1,70; 000* NI tie:du:ors:et:le:ler: 'oll:fwriting, circulating, sl'a canh' °a i'' cbtalti%tlit:%:o(t‘eieity,rwass.,::taibdlteouixplutsaeitrt)iihyiyiiiiri,tan:mtei i lo 7ll oea x ierlity 4 cB;clei; i rieti ll it)siiii ; ol.l;:r : ::lfiile i rst ? pe;iogri et i M. E. G. 4 _ P g i MO i to :al authority be printed, such a statement : at all e vento , ` ge 1 00/ share in the eompositiou, although we took i l° tb i of cultair •i•li la • t , obje ct mg, poi, of It, wruen ,r, r : 1 ,would have somebodytituen acting th in tr n u t 10),tilee,r o,iir, ro ,t Personal ridicule of Mr. Turner...aohil 0 41 '